AM Sacramento: Here’s what you need to know for Thursday

Attorney Vincent Maher, left, looks at papers with Twin Rivers Unified Trustee Cortez Quinn before he pleaded no contest Wednesday to a felony count of colluding to falsify his paternity test sample and two misdemeanors for illegally taking gifts and loans from a school employee.
Hector Amezcua
hamezcua@sacbee.com

Good morning. Here’s what you need to know today:

Showers ahead?: The second of three chances for rain arrives Friday night. Could the mini rainstorms be a prelude to a wet winter? Wednesday’s morning showers dropped 0.09 of an inch on Sacramento. The National Weather Service is predicting a 30 percent chance of showers Friday night and another shot at light rain on Monday. Today’s conditions in Sacramento: 74 degrees and mostly sunny.

Ebola preparedness in state: California’s top health officials tried to assure an increasingly nervous public on Wednesday that they are ramping up readiness to fight the deadly Ebola virus, including seeking screening at all of the state’s international airports.

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No contest plea: Twin Rivers Unified Trustee Cortez Quinn pleaded no contest Wednesday to a felony count of conspiracy to obstruct justice in a paternity case and two misdemeanors for illegally taking gifts and loans from a school district employee. The plea bargain in Sacramento Superior Court means Quinn could spend up to one year in county jail and serve five years of formal probation. Under state law, Quinn is suspended from his school board seat by virtue of pleading no contest to a felony. Related coverage: Sacramento Bee photo gallery

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